02-4 Achievements and objectives
DLMS USER ASSOCIATION at Metering Europe:
Achievements and objectives
As in each year, the DLMS User Association took an active role on the Metering Europe Conference, this important information hub on energy information exchange, held in Amsterdam from 1st to 3d October.
Prior to the conference, the first official DLMS/COSEM Training Seminar took place. The event has been organised by Synergy. On this full day seminar, 17 people, coming from utilities, manufacturers and system providers took part from many countries from Malaysia to Canada and from South Africa to Lithuania, demonstrating a global interest. The training material, a PowerPoint presentation of 200+ slides with detailed comments, is made available for DLMS UA members and more training seminars will be organised by the DLMS UA. They are also available on request.
The DLMS UA participated on the exhibition with a booth, where the latest developments, including the Conformance Test Tool and the devices, which have already obtained a certification, were presented. Our booth has drawn a lot of attention and several new members have been registered, pushing the membership up to 50. During the conference, two presentations were given on DLMS/COSEM. Paul Fuchs and Győző Kmethy, on behalf of the DLMS UA gave a “mini version” of the training version, and Mr. Joachim Sztochaj, on behalf of Euro DCS has presented the Conformance Test Tool.
As usual, the Annual Meeting, the 6th now, has also been held during the conference. The main achievements in 2002, namely the publication of the international standards by IEC for electricity metering and CEN for gas- water- heat metering, the availability of the conformance certification scheme and the availability of the training package have been acknowledged. The meeting has also set the objectives for the next year. The focus will be on the system side, and more effort will be made on disseminating information and promoting products available, in order to lower the entry level. In this process, the DLMS UA web site at http://www.dlms.com/ will keep playing an important role.
On the standardisation side, the DLMS UA will work on a method, which allows using the COSEM application for meter data exchange over the ubiquitous Internet. It is planned, that this new specification will be injected into the international standardisation process via the liaison established this year between the DLMS User Association and IEC TC 13 WG14, the committee responsible for standards on electricity meter data exchange. To speed up the process, the IEC Publicly Available Specification (PAS) process will be used. With this, the result is expected by Q3 2003.
The General Meeting elected the new management committee. The members are: Rene Gourc (Actaris/France), Cyril Galabert (EdF/France), Martin Wisy (EMSYCON/Germany), Touko Salo (Enermet/Finland), Győző Kmethy (Euro DCS/Germany), Giovanni Riboldi (Goerlitz/Italy), Thomas Schaub (Landis+Gyr, Switzerland). Győző Kmethy has been re-elected as President and Paul Fuchs has been re-appointed as General Secretary.